Indeed, the defining characteristic of most Parreira sides is their emphasis on patient possession of the ball.
Under capitalism, wealth is less a stock of goods than a flow of ideas and information, the defining characteristic of which is surprise.
Speed being the defining characteristic of Hikari Tsushin, it not surprisingly has made the fastest rise in history--within 12 years of being founded--to the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
The revolt of this class, he thinks, could be the defining characteristic of the election, counting more even than the rise of the (also mostly white, but mostly more affluent) tea-party movement.
The majority "deprives States of what most would consider the defining characteristic of sovereignty: the power to exclude from the sovereign's territory people who have no right to be there, " Justice Scalia wrote.
Predictability has been the defining characteristic of the Mariano Rivera experience the knowledge that calling upon the lean relief pitcher was essentially to end a ballgame several outs early, extinguishing an opponent and giving the crowd a few extra minutes to gather personal effects.
This became the essential defining characteristic of American identity.
The internet's defining characteristic, the quality by which the active web historically opposes passive TV, is that you pull from it.
The water system provides drinking water for 42 million people and is a defining characteristic of the states and provinces along its borders.
While the museum is a jumble of rectangular blocks stacked in seemingly haphazard ways, its defining characteristic is the plain white facade.
It is not in the spirit of fair play either: a defining characteristic of sporting endeavour, which is what the Olympics is all about.
Its defining characteristic is the low-observable, or stealth, features that make it nearly impossible to track or target using conventional radar or heat-seeking missiles.
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Yet they come from the same company and have one similar, defining characteristic: neither burns a drop of fuel.
Far Cry 3 goes a little bit farther, with a protagonist so deeply boring and broish that his only defining characteristic is being a white dude, and the ending throws in a few twists that manage to one up even Avatar on paternalism.
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